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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of feminist theory? |
| | A) | Feminist theory treats women as the central subjects of investigation. |
| | B) | Feminist theory promotes activism on behalf of women. |
| | C) | Feminist theory is multicultural in orientation. |
| | D) | Feminist theory advocates a linear understanding of the historical experiences of women. |
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The authors of this chapter are most concerned with answering which of the following questions? |
| | A) | What about the women? |
| | B) | Why is the social world as it is? |
| | C) | How can we change and improve the social world? |
| | D) | Why did the classical sociological theorists ignore gender relations? |
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The theoretical focus of liberal feminism is on: |
| | A) | gender difference. |
| | B) | gender inequality. |
| | C) | gender oppression. |
| | D) | structural oppression. |
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The essentialist argument proposes that the differences between men and women can be explained by all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | socialization. |
| | B) | biology. |
| | C) | social institutional needs for men and women to fulfill different roles. |
| | D) | the existential need of human beings to produce an "Other." |
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____________ women and ____________ men rank high on all human stress indicators, including headaches, fainting, and fear of a nervous breakdown. |
| | A) | Married; married |
| | B) | Unmarried; unmarried |
| | C) | Unmarried; married |
| | D) | Married; unmarried |
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Which of the following variables is most critical for those who focus on gender oppression theory? |
| | A) | power |
| | B) | money |
| | C) | mothering |
| | D) | culture |
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Which of the following types of feminist theory proposes that men unconsciously desire to dominate women because they fear their own mortality? |
| | A) | psychoanalytic feminism |
| | B) | existential feminism |
| | C) | radical feminism |
| | D) | material feminism |
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Which of the following is NOT an action proposed by radical feminism as a means to defeat patriarchy? |
| | A) | women coming to recognize their own values and strengths |
| | B) | women uniting across their differences and forming a sisterhood of trust |
| | C) | women withdrawing into female networks in the workplace |
| | D) | women uniting across classes to overthrown the capitalist system |
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According to radical feminists, patriarchy is based on: |
| | A) | class stratification. |
| | B) | physical violence. |
| | C) | cultural differences between men and women. |
| | D) | cognitive mobilization. |
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Which of the following types of feminist theory advocates that women should engage in separatist practices in order to defeat patriarchy? |
| | A) | socialist feminism |
| | B) | radical feminism |
| | C) | cultural feminism |
| | D) | liberal feminism |
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Which of the following would a cultural materialist most likely study? |
| | A) | how the mass media represent women's bodies |
| | B) | how the global capitalist economy assigns low-wage jobs to women |
| | C) | how men unconsciously reproduce patriarchy in the private sphere |
| | D) | how the history of culture and meaning-making is the product of capitalism |
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Which of the following perspectives acknowledges that women experience oppression in a variety of ways according to class, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual preference? |
| | A) | cultural materialism |
| | B) | intersectionality theory |
| | C) | socialist feminism |
| | D) | liberal feminism |
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Patricia Hill Collins describes the concept of standpoint as: |
| | A) | the view of the world shared by a group that possesses heterogeneous commonality. |
| | B) | the view of the world shared by a group that possesses homogeneous commonality. |
| | C) | an essentialist viewpoint that constitutes a group. |
| | D) | a view of the world that only oppressed women can possess. |
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Postmodern feminists believe that: |
| | A) | knowledge is completely objective. |
| | B) | it is possible to deconstruct gender. |
| | C) | social scientists have the authority to define social reality for everyone. |
| | D) | essentialist and universal categories liberate people. |
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Feminist theorists are more likely to __________ postmodernism than to ___________ it. |
| | A) | celebrate; reject |
| | B) | embrace; question |
| | C) | question; embrace |
| | D) | ignore; understand |
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When feminist theorists say that subordinate groups experience social life as a balancing of roles, they mean that: |
| | A) | subordinate groups have the capacity to compartmentalize their lives and actions. |
| | B) | subordinate groups have to merge their interests and orientations as they navigate social institutions. |
| | C) | a subordinate group's experience is generalizable to the dominant group's experience. |
| | D) | subordinate groups exhibit purposive role behavior. |
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Which of the following is NOT a defining characteristic of ideology? |
| | A) | It describes social reality in an objective and truthful manner. |
| | B) | It is a reflection of the interests and experiences of society's dominant group. |
| | C) | It is institutionalized as public knowledge. |
| | D) | It becomes taken-for-granted knowledge for all social groups. |
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According to macro-level feminist theorists, gender oppression in a capitalist society: |
| | A) | is a functional imperative. |
| | B) | trivializes the productive work of men. |
| | C) | reflects the interests and experiences of women. |
| | D) | makes it difficult for women to enter the public sphere. |
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The concept of a bifurcated consciousness refers to: |
| | A) | how subordinate individuals live with both the reality of actual experiences and the reality of social typifications. |
| | B) | how dominant groups are privileged to experience reality from the standpoint of both their own group and subordinate groups. |
| | C) | how subordinate groups have a love/hate relationship with their oppressors. |
| | D) | how some women are able to experience the social world as if they were men. |
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______________ is the process by which capitalist patriarchal domination is enacted through an independent system of controls that includes the economy, the state, and the professions. |
| | A) | Bifurcation |
| | B) | Relations of ruling |
| | C) | Historical materialism |
| | D) | Standpoint theory |
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Patriarchy is the unit of analysis in world-systems theory. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Liberal feminists are more interested in examining how women are oppressed in society than they are in how men and women are different. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Feminists who study gender differences are most concerned with how women are oppressed and subordinated by men in a patriarchal society. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Overall, marriage is good for men and bad for women because married women experience more stress than unmarried women, while married men experience less stress than unmarried men. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Psychoanalytic feminists believe that men unconsciously reproduce patriarchy because they are more afraid of their own mortality than women are. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to radical feminists, the first historical structure of domination and submission is patriarchy. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Intersectionality theory assumes that all women experience oppression in the same way. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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The feminist relationship to postmodernism is characterized more by unease than by enthusiasm, because postmodernism fails to recognize the importance of political activism. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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The macro-level feminist understanding of stratification suggests that women and other subordinate groups experience social life as a movement among compartmentalized roles. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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The relations of ruling in late capitalist patriarchy are characterized by anonymity, generality, and authority. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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